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I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

David Attenborough

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.
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I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
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You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
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I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
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The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
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Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
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Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.
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